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dred new-weaned pigs, within six or eight miles 

 of my place, at about $1.50 each, and they would 

 have grown into f a 1* profit by fall ; but I would 

 not take a risk that might bear ill fruit. I had 

 slight depressions of spirits when I visited my 

 piggery during that summer ; but I chirked up 

 a little in the fall, when the brood sows again 

 made good. But more of that anon. 



